Song

The cloud-piles o’er Kona’s sea whet my joy,

Clouds that drop fain in fair weather.

The clustered dew-pearls shake to the ground;

The boys drone out the na-ú to the West,

Eager for Sol to sink to his rest.

This my day for a plunge in the sea—

The Sun will be warming other shores—

Happy the tribes of that land of calm!

Fathomless, deep is my love